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817 So. 2d 1121

State v. Guillard

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided April 12, 2002

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 2002-04-12

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Relies on State v. Dorthey

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Decided 2002-04-12

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CALOGERO, C.J., and JOHNSON, J., concur in the denial of writ and assign the following reasons.

¶1The court of appeal opinion upsets the district court’s sentence and remands the case for the imposition of a new sentence. After remand to the district court, Relator will be afforded the opportunity to appeal the conviction and newly imposed sentence and have both the conviction and sentence examined on appeal. That being the case, we agree to the denial of Relator’s writ application without resolving whether or not the court of appeal has erred in upset*1122ting the district court’s ten-year sentence. For the foregoing reasons, we concur in the denial of the writ.

CALOGERO, C.J.,

¶2assigns the following additional concurring reasons.

¶3In my view, the ten-year sentence imposed by the district court was proper under the facts of this case, and a more onerous sentence, including the mandatory penalty under the Habitual Offender Law, would be excessive under the criteria set forth in State v. Dorthey, 623 So.2d 1276 (La.1993).

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